Elastic fabric



Feb. 7, 1933.

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Patented Feb. 7, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE THOMAS F. MOORE, OFWESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE C. MOORE COM- PANY, OFWESTERLY, RHODE ISLAND, A CORPORATION OF RHODE ISLAND ELASTICApplication 'filed June 24,

The present application is a continuation in part of my priorapplication Serial No. 571,363-,.filed October 27, 1931, in so far asthe contents of this present application have been set forth in suchearlier application.

The invention relates to elastic fabrics, and has as its object theprovision of novel and improved elastic` fabrics for use in themanufacture of corsets, girdles, and other similar and related garmentsor articles designed to support and confine the part of the bodyuponwhich they 'are worn.y

Elastic fabrics,- as properly so-called, have their elasticityconferred4 through the inclusion of component elements which arethemselves elastic and capable of elongation, such as the vulcanizedrubber Acords widely used for this purpose, as distinguished fromfabrics made of purely textile elements in whichI a certain lamo-unt ofyield is attained through pulling out or Astraightening the bends andundulations into which the elements are thrown by reason of their twistor' their interengagement in forming the fabric. But all commerciallysuccessful elastic fabrics hitherto devised and used have had capacityfor contraction andv subsequent stretching conferred'through the use ofelastic elements extending only in one direction, either in thedirection of their length or of their width, and never in bothdirections at once. Corsets, girdles, and the like articles made` fromsuch prior fabrics have been inherently incapable of accommodatingthemselves closely to the body of the wearer when the portion of thewearers body has been subjected4 to bending within the width of thegarment, as at the waist and across the hips of the wearer ofl such agarment. This is because these elastic fabrics, hitherto having astretch in only one directionfhave to be employed with the direction ofstretch disposed circumferentially around the wearers body, in order toattain the desired confining effect. Being inelastic and incapable ofelongation in a direction up and down the wearers body, the upperandlower margins lof the garment are forced to slip andslide overthewear'ers body as the underlying portions ofthe body become more orFABRIC 1932. Serial No. 619,076.

less convex and hence lengthened or shortened in surface, and.' thesemarginal portions tend thereafter to remain in the undesired positionsto which they have been thus pulled, destroying the smoothness of lineof the gar-l ment and causing discomfort and embarrassment to thewearer, and requiring undesirable manual readjustment to restore them toplace. Also, uncomfortable Iand unsightly folds tend to be produced onthe concave side of the bend in the garment, with the accompanyingwell-known and unsightly fault of having the garment gape away from thewearers back when in a bending or sitting position.

With the object of overcoming these welllinown drawbacks, I have devisednovel elastic fabrics which are capable of being tion of their lengthand in the direction of their width and of course in any intermediatedirection or directions as well. These novel fabrics are capable ofbeing used alone, or

' in combination with the known fabrics having stretch in one directiononly, to make supporting and lconfining garments .which will hug thewearers body at all points in their width and conform to thechangingconvex and concave outlines of the b ody without slipping or gaping ofthe marginal portions, and without wrinkling or folding across portionsof concave outlines, because they are capable of contraction andexpansion. widthwise in .similar manner to the eX- tension andcontraction of the underlying surfaces of the wearers body.

Since these fabrics are used almost exclusively in the manufacture ofcorsets, girdles and other articles designed to surround an confine. aportion of the wearers body, their chief function is to contract aboutand thus press radially inward upon the surface which they surround. Toperform this primary function, in both woven fabrics such as shown anddescribed herein, and knitted fabrics such as form the subject-matter ofmy copending application filed Jan. 29, 1932, Serial Y f "stretchedsimultaneously both in the direc- L l ment into shape when the enclosedpart of narily longitudinal contraction of the fabric when Woven), haveto exert a fairly considerable degreeof contractive {effort This may beachieved in any of the familiar ways known in the art, as by running thelongitudinal elastic elements as tightly as possible in the weaving orotherwise making Vthem `operate near the limit of their stretch when inwear, or by making these elements of large diameter and hence powerfulin their contraction, on by putting them in large numbers and closetogether, or by a combination of these and other methods.

On the other hand, and as concerns the transverse stretch, which isdirected up and down the portion of the body confined by the` garment, Ihave found that this transverse contractibility of such a two-waystretch fabric must not exceed in its strengththe tendency of themarginal portions of the garment to cling to the skin or underlyingsurfaces, otherwise the marginal portions of the garment will not bepermitted to stay in their intended places While the enclosed portionsof the wearers body assume a convex or concave realtion and the mainpurpose of the provision of transverse stretch will thus be defeated. Inother words, the main specific function of the provision of transversestretch is to permit the garment to become wider or narrower exactly asthe underlying skin areas lengthen or contract, so that there will be nomovement relative to the skin at the top and the bottom edges of thegirdle. The requisite of the transverse stretch is that it shall yieldto permit the garment to increase its vertical width, or height,wherever needed, so that these marginal portions shall not be forced toslip at the convex side of a bend; but at the same time there must besufficient contractive effort to bring the garthe body is againstraightened out, and also, if desired, to take care of the fullnessotherwise forming at the concave side of a bend. Thus, it will beapparent that the tendency of the garment to contract transversely mustnot exceed th tendency of the marginal portions to clingthrough frictionto the points on the wearers bodywat which they have been applied, andthe"`/tendency to cling is determined largely by the working tension orcontractive effort of the elastic elements which create the tightness ofthe confining portion of the garment.

I have found that there is thus a definite requirement that thetransverse contractive effort, or resistance to stretch up and down the/wearers body, must be substantially less than the longitudinal (orperipheral) contractive effort exerted as the garment is worn,otherwisethe marginal portions of the girdle will slip just as in theprior one-way str/etch fabric girdles, and require t0 be tugged intoplace following-a bending posture of the enclosed portions of thewearers body. Like the grip of the garment, the transverse contractiveforce may be modified in several ways, as by inserting the transverseelastic elements with relatively low tension or otherwise making themoperate in lightly stretched relation when worn, or by putting in lessrubber either by reducing lthe diameter of other factors being equal, byinserting the covered rubber warp cords so that they will be about 50"@extended as they lie in the normal contracted fabric, While the coveredrubber weft cords will have a 20% extension as they lie in the fabricunder the same conditions, with the warpwise and wcftwise extension ofthe fabric as a whole limited re'- spectively to around 50% and 30%above its contracted dimensions. The tensions thus given to the elasticwarps'and. wefts are of course modified by the presence, number, andlength of the non-elastic or fibrous Warps generally used in all elasticfabrics, and the number, size, and length of the picks of the weft, bothelastic and non-elastic, Within limits known to those skilled in thisart;

To fulfill the primary function of the fabric in making a confininggarment, the rubber Warps employed are preferably but not necessarily offairly large diameter, the, uncovered rubber core being on the order of1/30 or 1/40 of an inch, whereas the rubber Wefts are of much smallerdiameter, their core frequently being of 1/100 of an inch inv size, andin'all cases being approximately commensurate with the size of thenon-elastic warps and Wefts which are or may be used in these fabrics;an elastic cord essentially suitable for use as weft in carrying theinvention into effect is that set forth in U. S. Letters Patent#1,822,847, granted on Sept. 8, 1931 to Percy Adamson.

Under all ordinary circumstances, therev will be a greater amount ofrubber in the Warp than in the weft, or in a knit fabric, in thewarp'than in the other angular-ly disposed elements, attained either byputting in more ends of rubber, or by using heavier rubbers, to givemore resistance-to stretching Awarpwise than transversely. But becausethe same rubber cord will 'contract more strongly when stretched to nearthe limit of its extensibility than it will at the beginning of itsstretch, starting from fully or nearly contracted relation, an importantfeature of the invention provides for inserting the elastic warps in thewoven fabric in substantially completely expanded relationship,stretched as close to the breaking point as is safe, while putting inthe elastic wefts under.

a-tension which leaves them far short of their full extension. Thus,other things being equal, an equal number of identical warps and weftsper inch put in in accordance with this phase of the invention can bemade to give a greatly preponderant force of contraction to the fabricin the direction of the warps. The insertion of non-elastic wefts alongwith the elastic wefts, while these latter are being put in at wellunder maximum tension, perpetuates the relationship thus establishedthrou h preventing weftwise strains on the fabric from stretching theelastic wefts far enoughto run up their tensions to a degree comparablewithI those of the elastic warps.

\ Thus I prefer to use non-elastic weft along with the elastic weft. Ifall the picks be made elastic, and inserted in suiiicient numbers t0give the fabric the required body, the

contractive power of these wefts is apt to be so great, even when thefine rubber cords just indicated are used as weft, as to overcome thefriction of the marginal portions ,of the fabric against the underlyingsurfaces, making the fabric slip instead of stretching as the wearerbends over, unless an unusually rough frictional surface be providedonthe fabric, which latter narrows the `field of the fabrics utility.The fibrous wefts make possible an exact and easy proportioning of theweftwise contractiveppower of the fabric'toV the warpwise contractivepower, because they can be added or reduced in number to complement thereduction or'addition of the rubber wefts, while keeping the density ofthe fabric as desired. Thus the presence of the fibrous wefts isimportant both as regards the rubber warps and as regards the Vrubberwefts,

" because-by diluting the concentration of the rubber wefts itfacilitates the obtaining of anyvdesired ratio between the lengthwiseand tion of their length. 69v

Fig. 2 is a similar diagrammatical representationof a section on line2-2 of Fig. 1, at right angles to thewarps, with lthe fiberv weftsomitted for clarity.

Figs. 3 and 4 show leno fabrics, longitudinally extensible, which arerendered capable -of simultaneous transverse stretch through the use ofelastic wefts in accordance with the invention.

Figs. 5 and 6 show other leno fabrics including both elastic warp andelastic weft, and hence extensible simultaneously both warpwise andweftwise in accordance with the invention.

Fig. 7 shows a fabric in which elastic warps are combined with elasticand nonelastic wefts without interweaving, by the use of straight-.wovenface and back nonelastic binder warps.

Fig. 8 shows a typical girdle, the component fabric of which, indicatedat a ma be any one of the invention fabrics of the oregoing figures.

The embodiment shown in Figs. 1 and 2 illustrates the novel fabric asmade by weaving, and -integrally combined with portions direction oftheir length, a combination having obvious desirable features for use inthe manufacture vof girdles and/corsets. Thus, the central portion ofthe width of the fabric extending from B t0 C comprises the novelelastic fabric'having capacity for stretching length and of its width,or two-way stretch, while the flanking portions of the width of theintegral fabric which extend from A to B and from C to D are capableof'being stretched only in the direction of their length,

and thus have one-way stretch.

The particular embodiment of Figs. 1 and 2 comprises elastic warps 1,which may be of any suitable construction, such as the usual vulcanizedelastic rubber strands or cords, covered in well-known manner withfibrous wrappings made of several lies of suitable yarn. .Between eachpair o rubber warps l are fibrous non-elastic warps 3, three of whichare used between each pair of elastic warps in the one-way stretchfabric, and two of which are employed between each pair of elastic warpsin the intermediate two-way stretch portion, the reduction in the numberof uibrous warps in the two-way stretch portion being to compensate forthe increased body otherwise resulting from the insertion of .theelastic weft in th1s portion, as will be described. Face and backfibrous non-elastic wefts 5, 6, are interwoven with the warps 3 in anydesired manner depending on the character or figure desired 'to beproduced on the face and back,'and in the weave shown result in theproductionof a face and-back having identicalv appearance, a featureofadvantage in certain uses to which lthe fabric may be put, as wherethe garment is desired to'bemade reversible. The face and back wefts 5,6, are not interwoven with the individual elastic warps 1, being pressedtightly enough against the face and back surfaces of thewarps 1 throughthe laction of the "of woven fabric having stretch onl in thesimultaneously both in the direction of its fibrous binder warps 3 tomaintain the elastic f warps l against slipping in the fabric eventhough these warps 1 are woven under tension. The face wefts 5 aftertraversing the one-way stretch portionpass to the back of the fabric atthe line B joining .the marginal one-way stretch portion with thecentral two-Way stretch portion, changing just outward of the warp 1"-,and lying/at the back across the full Width of the two-way stretchportion and returning to the face over the elastic warp la adjacenttheline C at the right-hand edge of the two-way stretch portion,remaining at the face across the other portion having one-Way stretcheztending from C to D, or to the selvage of this latter portion, as willbe understood. The back wefts 6 similarly change to the face at the lineB, and return to the back just before they reach elastic Warp la.A Thepractice of the invention being in no way dependent on the particularmethod of working these wefts, it is to be understood that this ismerely one satisfactory Way of doing so, and is not restrictive.

The novel elastic weft 7 is inserted in the fabric from line B to line Cto form the twoway stretch portion, herein being interwoven with theelastic warps l across 'the interval, and it may likewise .be interwovenwith the fibrous warps 3 in any suitable or desired manner. The materialof this elastic weft 7 may be any known rubber cord, preferably covered,of suitable character, such as that of the Adamson patent aforesaid. Itis desired that the uncovered rubber core itself lbe of relatively smalldiameter, and an indication of the proper size is that it should besubstantially commensurate in diameter with the non-elastic fibrouswarps 3 which will be used in the fabric; in other words, the core ofthe rubber cord will normally range from No. (1/50. of an inch indiameter) through various smaller sizes. It is found that larger wefts,being stronger, have to be separated farther apart from each other in .v

- the fabric, insorder to make the fabric gentle enough in itstransverse stretch to have the proper ratio toits lengthwise stretch,and this. excessive spacing of the wefts, with the requisite filling-inof non-elastic wefts to give body, tends to make the intermediate areasof the latter shirred and uneven when the rubber warps contract andgather them, also forming transverse ribs where the rubber wefts are.Such a fabric becomes unsuitable for use as `an undergarment, as toorough to go against or close to the skin. Elastic wefts of the sizesindicated, being ne, be put much closer together without making thefabric too strong and without loss of the desired contraction ratioaforesaid, even when the non-elastic wefts are eliminated entirely;though where used, the reduced are weak, and the successive picks canAnumber of intervening non-elastic wefts makes possible the controlledand nearly invisible gathering or shirringof these wefts, and the rubberweft cords being smaller in diameter there are no transverse ribs. Theresult is a smooth surfaced fabric eminently suitable to go against theskin.

It `is essential that the fabric shall lie` flat, and not tend to curlor roll up, when taken fromthe loom, otherwise the fabric has little orno commercial value.v This requirement, more-diflicult of attainment ina two-way stretch fabric than in the previous one-way stretch materials,has been met in accordance with the invention through balancing theamount of rubber at one face by an equal amount at the other, both asregards the rubber warp and as concerns the rubber weft; and throughpreferably always inserting two elastic picks side by side in directlyopposed relation, these successive picks Work directly against eachother and cancel each others tendency to curl the fabric, even though anumber of non-elastic wefts precede and follow cach pair.

The elastic weft is preferably inserted under a tension sufficient withregard to the various factors to produce the widthwise contraction ofthe fabric wheny taken from the loom which is to bring the garmentfashioned therefrom back into `shape as the wearer straighteus up,without causing slipping of the margins of the garment when the wearerbends. lThis weft tension is of appreciable extent and easilyascertained by one skilled in the art; it is of tot-ally different andlesser degree from the tension under which the elastic warps areinserted. These latter are pulled out practically to the limit of theirstretch, while the elastic wefts, on the other' shuttle.

The non-elastic or fibrous wefts 5, 6, act in another Way to create andpreserve the proper working ratio between the lengthwise and transversecontractibility, through compelling the elastic wefts to operate withina narrow range of relatively gentle tensions at the beginning of theirstretch. In this and the otherfabrics of the inventionthe elastic weftsbecause put in under tension, are normally shorter than the non-elasticweft elements, but they are not drawn -out to the limit of their stretchat the time when they are put in; hence the fibrous wefts 5, 6,prevent'the rubber wefts from ever being stretched beyond the moderatetension at which inserted, and therefore prevent the'contractive effortof the elastic wefts from reaching'anywhere near their maximum becausethe fibrous wefts limit .the stretchv long before the elastic ele-Leganes y fibrous warp wrapped around it through the same eye in theharness and the same dent in the reed as disclosed in Patents lNos.1,566,- 727, and 1,577,728, granted on Dec. 22, 1925, to F. L. Brigham;as there, I insert a pick of rubber weft which is not extended to itsfulll stretch, and insert alongside of it a stretch limiting non-elasticweft. The non-elastic weft of course has the same eHect as thenonelastic stretch-limiting warps just described in prolonging the lifeof the elastic throughy preventing its being strained to the limit, as

,well as serving the additional ends 0f diluting the concentration ofrubber extending weftwise in a given length and of holding the rubberweft down to the weak end of its stretch.

In the specific form of Figs. 1 and 2 the elastic weft is inserted undermoderate tension in two successive and adjacent picks, which are workedexactly opposite. Thereafter, four picks of face and back wefts 5. 6.are inserted, and then two more picks of the elastic weft are put in.The arrangement shown at the right hand terminus of the twoway stretchcentral portion is particularly suited for use in a light and flexiblefabric,

the elastic weft 7 vbeing looped around and forming its reverse bendthrough engagement with the elastic warp 1a which lies iust I outward ofthe crossing ofthe face andback wefts 5 from one surface to the other ofthe fabric` as shown in Fig. 1; by such crossing, aswell as `by its 'owntension at all times, this warp 1a is eectually held'from being pulledinward through the contraction of the elastic weft with accompanyingdistortion of the de.-

sired fiat aspect of the fabric. As shown, the

portion of the continuous elastic weft 7 which extends between one groupof two picks and the next similar group is simply ioated over all thewefts until it again reenters the fabric, looping around elastic warp1"; because the four picks of face and back wefts 5, 6, pack togetherclosely, the float is of incon; spicuous length and aspect, and elasticwa i 1b,being always tense, prevents distortion of the fabric. 1,

Ordinarily, the two-way stretch fabric as shown between the'lines B andC may be woven as a single homogeneous material. But peculiar advantagesfiow from the combination of the two-way stretch fabric with flankingsections of one-way stretch-elastic fabric, where the material is to be.used as and changing their position on the wearers body when the latteris flexed. Thus, it is contemplated within the scope of the presentinvention to combine the two materials, the old. and the new, eitherthrough weaving the two materials separately and thereafter com-` biningthem by sewing or otherwise uniting the selvages of the two materialstogether, or preferably as indicated in Fig. 1, through weaving themintegrally in one piece and with component elements common to both, asshown and described. Made in either way, the one-way stretch cuffflanking the topand bottom edges of the two-way stretch portion as thefabric is utilized in a girdle possesses a rigidity and freedom fromyield or stretch up and .down the ,wearers bod y which definitely gripsthe underlying sur aces and serves to belt the top and bottom ofthegarment to definite points on the wearers body above the hip bonesand below the hips, and to fix the position of these portions of thegarment, while the intermediate two-way stretch portion spreads andrecovers as the underlying portions of the body become convex orconcave; and further provides a rigid band at the bottom of the garmentfor sewing the garters to. The invention fabric enables the maker ofsuch corsets and garters and similar garments easilyl to define thewaist line of the wearer and to define it in such a way as not to impedethe movementsnor interfere with the comfort of the wearer,

fabrics through the. use of leno or cross- I weaving. In Fig. 3,- thecovered rubber warps 9 are combined with the rubber wefts.

11, 13, and the non-elastic or fibrous -wefts 15, 17, withoutinterweaving, a non-elastic leno warp 1 9, 21, being associated witheachY rubber warp 9 and crossing back and forth over its rubber warp atone surface of the fabric to engage beneath a air of elements comprisin.a fibrous weft 1 and an elastic weft -11 lylng at the back of thefabric. In -f and-aai-ce fibrous weft 15 against its proper elastic warp9. Each twox adjacent lenorp its c `ng, it binds a face elastic 'weft 13warps are run symmetrically with respect to each other, converging `anddiverging-and crossing their respective warps with opposite inclination,as plain in Fig. 3.v In Fig. 4, '125 the construction is identical,-except that the leno warps 23 are all run parallel to each other, thedifference resulting in-dg'iving the fabric of Fig. 3a slight reticulateor honeycomb aspect, while that of Fig. 4 has adis-` tinctly ribbed `o rtwilled appearance. In

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` with a' face having transverse ribs ofwhichl each of these fabrics,the crossing of the rubber .warps by the lenos has been found to impartto the surface shown in the drawings just enough friction to cling tothe skin of the wearer without being too rough and uncom- Anotherfeature of the fabrics of Figs. 3 and 4 is that the weft, both elasticand non-elastic, need not be interwoven with the warps, but runsstraight and without perceptible undulation in two separate planes aboveand below the elastic warps. This is of considerable advantage in givingto the fabric a flat and level surface at each face. While the fabric ofFigs. 1 and 2 is characterized by longitudinal ribs at both surfaces,the surface of the fabric shown in Fig. 3

, though reticulated is notably more level and totally devoid oflongitudinal ribs, while that of Fig. 4 has low transverse ribs whichpresent a flatter and more level-surface than the construction ofFig. 1. The other advantages attained in the fabric of Fig. 1 aresecured in even greater measure, for the elastic wefts are inserted inadjacent pairs at opposite faces of the fabric, and through being runwithout interweaving are easily balanced in tension, one against theother, to make a fabric that will li'e fiat; while the fibrous wefts 15,17, which thin out the elastic wefts are even more intimately associatedeach with its adjacent elastic weft by the binding action of the leno,so as even more completely to allow. the insertion of the elastic weftwith any desired degree of minimum tension, without allowing the strainof yweftwise expansion of the fabric to run up the tension and resultingcontractive force of the elastic wefts, much less allow these elasticwefts to be strained to their limit.

Fig. 5 shows another form of two-way stretch leno fabric related to thatshown in Fig. 4, having in addition to the elements and arrangements ofFig. 4 a non-elastic fibrous warp 25 associated with each elastic warp9, and worked the same way as its proper elastic warp with respect tothe elastic wefts.

11, 13, but oppositely to the elastic warps with respect to thenon-elastic wefts 15, 17. The fibrous warps 25 are included within thecrossings of the parallel lenos associated with each elasticy warp 9.The result is a fabric alternate ones are conspicious and intermediateones are not noticed, owing to the changing slant of the lenos; whilethe back is notably smoother than in the other examples owl ing to thepresence of the fibrous warp 25.

In Fig. 6, the elastic wefts are paired and opposed at opposite faces ofthe fabric without interweaving with the warps, as described. .Twofibrous warps 27 29, are a's- Sociated with each elastic warp 9, whiletwo -leno warps cooperate with each group of elastic and non-elasticwarps, instead of one, as in the prior examples. The fibrous warps 29engage under two picks and over every third, whether rubber or fiber,while the intermediate fibrous warps 27 engage under five picks and overthe sixth; they are properly back warps and impart softness andsmoothness to the back. Four picks of nonelastic weft, 31, 32, 33, 34,are interposed between each successive pair of elastic wefts 35, 36, ofwhich three lie at the back of the elastic warps for every one at theface. The face leno 37 crosses back and forth over its rubber warp 9between the points where the face picks of elastic weft 35Iandnon-elastic weft 34 are laid across, so that these wefts are notstitched into the fabric by this leno, but instead are held to the warpsby the back leno 39, which passes over these two wefts from behind,crossing over the back elastic wefts 36 and their associated fibrouswefts 31 where these two intersect the rubber warps 9, and engaging overthe same pick of fibrous back weft 32 under which is engaged the faceleno37. Each rubber warp has two fibrous warps 27, 29, associated withit, and included within the zigzags of its proper face and back lenos.It is to be noted that the face and back lenos bot-h pass from one faceof the fabric to the other at the same time; this makes a crossing ofthese warps which spreads apart the wefts immediately preceding andfollowing such crossing Since this crossing occurs after every otherpick and occasionally both before and after a single pick, the fabric isgiven an openwork texture V l10:)

pect differing from the diagonal honeycomb appearance of Fig. 3, as theface leno does not clip the corners o f the squares defined by the warpsand wefts. The back of the fabric is exceedingly soft and smooth, owingto the long floats of the fibrous warps 29 and the additional fibrousback wefts 32 and 33.

Fig. 7 shows a straight weave in which the elastic warps 9 are likewisenot interwoven with the elastic wefts 41, 43, but establish the latterin face and back weft planes. The elastic wefts are each accompanied byadjacent fibrous wefts 45, 47, respectively, worked the same way astheir respective elastic wefts, and the wefts are bound to the elasticwarps by fibrous warps 49, 51, which are worked in a warp twill weave,passing under aback elastic weft 43 and its associated back fibrous weft47 and thereafter floating for six picks at the surface. The face andback of the fabric are identical, as the back warps 51 are worked insimilar manner.

While I haveV illustrated and described certain forms in which theinvention may be embodied, I am aware that many modifications may bemade therein by any person skilled in the art, without departing fromthe scope of the invention as expressed in the claims. Therefore, I donot wish to be limited to the particularforms shown, or to the detailsof construction thereof, but

What I do claim is l. In a corset, girdle, or the like supportinggarment, elastic fabric having in combination parallelly extendingelastic elements, and other elastic elements extending intermediate eachadjacent pair of the first elements in angular relation to the latter,one of the two sets of elastic elements being capable of exerting astrong contractive effort and the other restricted to a contractiveeffort l materially below that of the first set as the ments, and a setof elastic rubber weft elements, one of such sets of elastic elementsarranged to exert a contractive effort materially below that of theother as regards portions of the fabric of equivalent size,

3. In a corset, girdle, or the like supporting garment, woven elasticfabric having in combination elastic rubber warp elements, elasticrubber weft elements, non-elastic yarns limiting the stretch of theelastic warps at or about the maximum extensibility of the latter, andnon-elastic yarns preventing the stretch of the elastic wefts beyond afraction f of their normal extensibility.

4. In a corset, girdle, or the like support- .ing garment, elasticfabric having component elements of rubber permitting simultaneousstretching of the garment in two dimensions through elongation of therubber elements, the contractive force of the elastic fabric in thegarment being materially greater in ing garment, woven elastic fabrichaving in stretched as a whole in the direction of its length, andhaving a portion of its width capable of being simultaneously stretchedtransversely, and another portion of its Width incapable of transversestretch.

9. In a corset, girdle, or the like supporting garment, elastic fabriccomprising in combination one or more marginal portions capable of beingstretched lengthwise only and an intermediate portion capable of beingstretched simultaneously both lengthwise and crosswise.

10. A corset, girdle, or the like supporting garment including in itscomposition an elastic fabric having in combination a set of elastic andnon-elastic warps, and a set of elastic and non-elastic wefts, thestretch of the'fabric in the direction of one of these sets of elementsbeing limited to less than the stretch in the direction of the otherset.

11. In a corset, girdle, or the like supporting garment, woven elasticfabric having in combination elastic warps distributed acrosssubstantially the full width of the fabric, and elastic wefts insertedin groups of one or more pairs of oppositely-work'ed adjacent picks eachof which picks in a `pair substantially -balances the tendency of thepther pick to curl the fabric, with the groups separated by one or morepicks of non-elastic weft, and with the elastic weft less in extent thanthe widthof the fabric.

THOMAS F. MOORE.

' combination elastic warp elements, non-elastic weft elementscoeXtensive with the width of the fabric, and elastic weft elementsinterspersed with the non-elastic wefts and termlnating short of thefull-width of the fabric.

6. Woven elastic` fabric having in combination elastic warps, elasticand non-elastic wefts crossing the elastic warps without interweavingtherewith, and non-elastic warps binding a' pair of adjacent wefts,comprising an elastic weft and a non-elastic weft, to the elastic warpsalternately at one face and then at the other of the fabric, the elasticwefts being inserted in adjacent pairs.

7. Woven elastic fabric having in combination elastic warps, V'face andback elastic wefts, face and back non-,elastic wefts, and leno warpsengaging first a face elastic weft,

' and' a face non-elastic weft, and then a back CERTIFICATE OFCORRECTION.

Patent N0. 1,896,783. February 7, 193s.

THOMAS E. MOORE.

lt slherebyeertiiied that error appears in the printed specification Ofthe above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: ln thedrawings, sheet 7 at the right hand side.` strike Out "Fig. 8," showinga fabric weave; and that the said LettersfPatent should be read withthis correction therein that the same may conorm'to the record Of thecase in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 28th day Of February, A. D. 1933.

. M. i. Moore, (Seal) Actlng Commissioner of Patents.

DESCLA'BM 1,896,783f-Thomas F. Moore, Westerly, R. l. ELAs'rro FABRIC.,Patent dated l February?, 1933. Disclaimer led August 4, 1933, by theassignee, George C.

Moore Company, the patentee, said Moore, approving and-ratifying.

Hereby enters this disclaimer to that part of the claim in saidspecification which is in the following Words, to Wit:

4. in a corset, die, or the like supporting garment, elasticfabric'havng component elements ,o rubber permit-ting simultaneousstretching of the garment in two dimensions through elongation of therubber elements, the contrastive force of the elastic fabric in thegarment being materially greater in one of such dimensions than in theother, under like conditions.

[Q 'icz'al Gozette August 29, 1.933.]

